Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

In OS X, if you hold down "opt+shift" while adjusting the volume with the volume function keys, it will adjust the volume with more granular steps. I'm wondering if there's a defaults.write thing I ...

One of the easiest ways to impress your Mac-owning friends is simple: Simply press option + shift + volume up (F8) or option + shift + volume down (F9). It looks like this: That magical combination of ...

In fiddling around with Sublime Text 2 today, at one point I stumbled upon a command that needed F2 and F3 keys to be executed. I remember I once heard about a Mac app that let you easily toggle ...